He hadn’t had a lot of experience other than training. Certainly nothing like what his grandfather described, certainly nothing like his father either. Their grandfather after all came to Moladion at what was now Teza’s age, he couldn’t picture leaving his home into the unknown like his grandfather had, but he couldn’t imagine a life like what he had before coming to Moladion either. His father was probably more like him in that he didn’t have to fight any wolves until a challenge came calling him to battle. Teza wasn’t the Guardian, but he knew the time would come when he would have to protect his lands from wolves who would want to disturb the peace of the forest. He still wanted to become one of Zelda’s champions too, and he hoped by training Citlalli this would be one step in the right direction to doing that as well.

She commented on his name being easier, most people agreed. It was some weird tradition that they never actually call each other by their full names it felt like. His grandfather was rarely called Coszcotl after all, and his father Amoxtli. Even his brother, Tepiltzin, had his name shortened to Tepi most days. It was just easier for most wolves to shorten the strange ‘exotic’ names down, not that any of them minded. Still she seemed excited at the prospect that he also spoke latin. ”Yeah, mother insisted because she’s an angel. Though I prefer Nahuatl myself, I know how to speak it pretty well. It’s, well I am not sure if I would call it fun, but useful. It’s probably the second most common language on Moladion now.” He informed her giving a bit of a sheepish smile. Though admittedly he never really used it with anyone but Tepi or his Mother. He never met the other side of his family. He knew his Mother’s mom passed on, and she didn’t seem to have any will to go to Diveen, though apparently, a lot of the other side of his family was still there. Someday maybe he would go see for himself, right now though he tried to keep his focus upon the girl.

She seemed to be confident, and already knew that her build would get her to where she wanted to go. It was good to be confident, it was something their family tended to lack in themselves, but still they worked harder because of it he felt. He wanted to prove to everyone every day that he could be a good fighter too, that he could make up for getting in Tithe’s way when he encountered the golden bear two years ago, giving him the scars on his shoulder and chest that were currently mostly covered by his fur. She said not to discount her mother though, he believed it. ”I think she was part of the last bear hunt, wasn’t she?” Teza asked, surely not discounting her if that was the case. Hunters, after all, were basically warriors that focused on take down of prey creatures after all rather than other wolves, in some ways they were more well rounded.

However he started to lead the way. She explained that her family was well, that their mother was teaching them to climb trees and her sisters were training. ”Sounds like a good time.” He replies with a smile. He was happy for them all. It wasn’t a long walk to where he liked to train by his brush pile, however she asked then how his family was doing and he grinned, so pleased with his family. ”They have been busy, I got two new little sisters this spring!”Teza said excitedly, happy himself that he had new little siblings to help take care of. ”They are apparently a lot easier than Tepi and I were, but we were near exact twins, and Tepi got into everything.” He said adding a little chuckle, his tail zipping through the air cheerfully.

However the clearing soon was coming into sight, along with his rather sizable pile of logs and brush. ”Ah! We are here.” He said looking up at his pile of brush, his own almost alchemy like formula to make himself special. ”This is where I drag all the brush and sticks I can to build up my strength. It’s… my own personal challenge I guess you don’t need to do it, but we will meet here for your lessons from now on” He informed her, his mismatched green and blue eyes setting on her then.

”First things I am going to teach you will be boring. You will learn a lot about stance, and small footwork movements. We are big, and strong, we can’t really go zipping all over the place, and its good to conserve your energy for long fights.” He began to lower himself, widening his stance, lowering his head, his ears were pinning themselves back against his head in natural reaction. ”You want a lower, wide stance, so you can guard your throat, and can’t be displaced as easily. Unlike hunting, you won’t be running around after something.” He told her waiting for her own reply and for her to attempt to take the stance as well before continuing.